The nature, taste, or timing of death no longer makes a difference for the Syrians. To them, death is one and the same while seeking freedom and dignity, regardless of the size of the crimes and mass murders perpetrated by Al-Assad's regime. For the past week, the Western press has been mainly tackling the increasing evidence pointing to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against civilians. But the Western governments, along with the Arab ones, are forgetting that war crimes have been perpetrated against the Syrian people since the eruption of their revolution, and that they are still being killed and tortured while the international community is remaining silent and completely idle. The Syrian regime is a criminal one that does not differentiate between what is prohibited and what is not. It has already perpetrated several mass killings which did not spare the children, women, or elderly. Today, the number of dead has reached more than 65,000 amid the death of universal conscience. At this point, I would like to recall that while the international demands are mounting for the incrimination of Bashar al-Assad's regime and the hastening of the solution and international intervention – albeit a military one – to stop the bloodbath and help the Syrians topple a criminal regime which committed all types crimes by using tanks, aircrafts and chemical weapons, another side is also participating in these practices, i.e. the Lebanese Hezbollah. Indeed, Hassan Nasrallah became involved in a war against the Syrians, which will reflect on his presence, his weapons, and his country in the future, after he implicated his party and ruined its image on the Arab and Islamic levels. Hezbollah is implementing the instructions of the Vali-e Faqih and fighting wars on behalf of Iran and Al-Assad's government as though they were “sacred and divine." This pushed a number of Shiite wise men and scholars to express their fears over Sunni-Shiite strife. At this level, Lebanese Shiite authority Sayyed Ali al-Amin has repeatedly warned against Hezbollah's implication in Syria, considering that the advocacy of Lebanon's dissociation policy verbally and not through actions constituted an adoption of the ostrich policy. He indicated that there were Lebanese men heading to fight in Syria and getting killed in it, while the state sometimes negotiated to repatriate their corpses without doing anything to prevent these men from participating in the fight, or holding the sides sending them to the combat arenas accountable. And this will have serious repercussions on the Lebanese scene. For his part, former Hezbollah Secretary General Sobhi al-Tufeili revealed that the number of party elements killed in Syria had exceeded 138, thus calling for the prevention of the dispatch of weapons or fighters to Syria, and the prevention of the establishment of training bases in Lebanon. He indicated in an interview with the Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal channel that party elements were fighting in Syria to defend Al-Assad's regime in accordance with an Iranian decision. As for Lebanese Shiite authority Hani Fahs, he expressed his rejection of Hezbollah's implication in the crisis in Syria, calling in a recent interview with the Kuwaiti As-Seyassah newspaper for the deployment of efforts to help the Syrian people topple their corrupt regime and establish a modern and democratic state that would embrace all the Syrians. Nasrallah is not ashamed to defend the regime in Damascus despite its perpetration of crimes against humanity, of which the last facet was the use of chemical weapons. This is why some Syrians were against Moaz al-Khatib's message to Hassan Nasrallah, even if he tried to address the human being in him, because he was speaking to a person whose hands are drenched in Syrian blood and who pushed his party's elements to slaughter the Syrians. The latter thus wondered how Al-Khatib could address Nasrallah, at a time when his party's elements participated in the last massacre in Jdaidet al-Fadl, where children who urinated on themselves due to fear from the brutality of a detestable and criminal regime were killed! The Syrian opposition is accusing Hezbollah and Iran of being implicated in the killing of Syrians based on many pieces of evidence. This pushed demonstrators in many Syrian cities to burn Hezbollah's flags and pictures of its leader Nasrallah, considering that the party was a partner in the crime through its defense of Al-Assad's regime that is being used by Iran as a strategic tool in the region, one whose collapse would cause the retreat of Persian influence and the dissipation of the role required of Hezbollah's militia. And as the controversy is mounting over the use of chemical weapons by Al-Assad's troops and those fighting alongside them, Obama's administration is coming off as weak, hesitant, and unable to surpass the Russians and adopt a historical decision that would be in favor of humanity. This is why the taste of death will remain the same for the Syrians, until victory is achieved and until the murderers within Al-Assad's regime and Hezbollah are tried in court. (...)
